Birmingham abortion clinic bomber Eric Robert Rudolph fights to get profits from his book

Eric Robert Rudolph fights to get profits from his book written from prison.

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - Birmingham abortion clinic bomber Eric Robert Rudolph, from his maximum security prison cell, is trying to fight federal prosecutors' seizure of the small profits he's made from his recently published autobiography.

He also asked that the case be transferred to a federal court in Denver, Colo., closer to the super maximum federal prison in Florence, Colo., where he is serving his sentences for multiple bombings .

Rudolph is serving life sentences for the January 1998 bombing that killed a police officer and injured a nurse at the Birmingham clinic and earlier blasts in Atlanta, Ga., including the Olympic Park blast that killed one person.

In February Rudolph released the paperback book, "Between the Lines of Drift: The Memoirs of a Militant," through the publishing company LuLu.com. The publisher was listed at his brother Daniel K. Rudolph. The book was priced at $19.95 each.

The money is being seized to pay off the $1,000,546.75 that Rudolph still owes in restitution, according to court documents filed by prosecutors.

In a response to Rudolph's letter filed today, Assistant U.S. Attorney Lane Woodke, stated that Rudolph did not claim in his letter any exemptions from the seizure of the book money. Also, Rudolph had agreed in his April 4, 2005 plea agreement to pay the victims any profits or proceeds "in connection with any publication or dissemination of any information relating to" his illegal conduct, she stated.

Federal officials also have said before that it is illegal for a criminal to profit from their actions.

Woodke asks that a judge deny Rudolph a hearing and allow the seizure of the money to continue.

Emily Lyons, a nurse, was badly injured in the Jan. 29, 1998 bombing of the New Woman, All Women Health Care Clinic on Birmingham's Southside. Robert Sanderson, Birmingham police officer who was moonlighting as a security guard at the clinic, was killed in the blast.